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The Go Programming Language
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The Go Programming Language

by Alan A. A. Donovan, Brian W. Kernighan
October 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
400 pages
14h 44m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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9.5 Lazy Initialization: sync.Once

It is good practice to defer an expensive initialization step until the moment it is needed. Initializing a variable up front increases the start-up latency of a program and is unnecessary if execution doesn’t always reach the part of the program that uses that variable. Let’s return to the icons variable we saw earlier in the chapter:

var icons map[string]image.Image

This version of Icon uses lazy initialization:

func loadIcons() { icons = map[string]image.Image{ "spades.png": loadIcon("spades.png"), "hearts.png": loadIcon("hearts.png"), "diamonds.png": loadIcon("diamonds.png"), "clubs.png": loadIcon("clubs.png"), } } // NOTE: not concurrency-safe! ...
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